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I installed the drivers for the TBS-6981 from your homepage under Xbuntu 11.04.
Afterwards I installed mythtv.

Setting up the card however does not work as expected.
When I press the button for setting "DiSEqC (Switch, LNB, and Rotor Configuration)
I get the message "Unconnected".

What am I missing?

G'day,

What does you log say?
Are you getting anything.
If I do as root

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dmesg>delme


In delme I see...

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TBS 6981 Frontend 0 Attaching...
DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
DVB: registering adapter 4 frontend 0 (TurboSight TBS 6981 DVBS/S2 frontend)...
TurboSight TBS6981 Dual DVB-S2 card port0 MAC=f6458c60
cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
TBS 6981 Frontend 1 Attaching...
DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
DVB: registering adapter 5 frontend 0 (TurboSight TBS 6981 DVBS/S2 frontend)...
TurboSight TBS6981 Dual DVB-S2 card port1 MAC=f6458db4
cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xa5
cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:02:00.0, rev: 4, irq: 16, latency: 0, mmio: 0xfd800000
cx23885 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64


I am not sure if this is corect yet, but I am mangaging to record of the card., I don't seem to be able to record S2 format yet. (I.E. BBC HD)

I get that, but when you highlight UNCONNECTED and hit enter, you get your choice.

telboy Wrote:I get that, but when you highlight UNCONNECTED and hit enter, you get your choice.

yeah, select 'Disconnected', hit enter, and then select LNB. job done.
that one had me stumped for a while on first setup of mythtv ; i didnt realise that i needed to select it first

if your hibernate/sleeping mythtv, then you will need to setup a script to kill mythbackend, modprobe -r cx23885, and then it can sleep. on wakeup, modprobe cx23885, restart mythbackend and job done.